Cheyres
Encyclopedia
Cheyres is a municipality
in the district of Broye
in the canton
of Fribourg in Switzerland
.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 8.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.9%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.8%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 26.5% is used for growing crops and 11.1% is pastures, while 4.9% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in lakes.
The municipality is located in the Broye district, on the southern shore of Lake Neuchatel
in the extreme western tip of the Estavayer-le-Lac exclave. It consists of the village of Cheyres and the hamlet
of Granges-de-Cheyres.
The municipalities of Châbles
, Cheyres, Murist
, Nuvilly
and Vuissens
are considering a merger on at a date in the future into the new municipality with an, , undetermined name.
of the municipal coat of arms
is Gules, a Fess bendy Sable and Argent.
Most of the population speaks French
(597 or 86.8%) as their first language, German
is the second most common (66 or 9.6%) and Portuguese
is the third (10 or 1.5%). There are 3 people who speak Italian
and 1 person who speaks Romansh.
, the population was 50.0% male and 50.0% female. The population was made up of 514 Swiss men (45.4% of the population) and 51 (4.5%) non-Swiss men. There were 526 Swiss women (46.5%) and 40 (3.5%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 193 or about 28.1% were born in Cheyres and lived there in 2000. There were 103 or 15.0% who were born in the same canton, while 290 or 42.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 73 or 10.6% were born outside of Switzerland.
The age distribution, , in Cheyres is; 77 children or 11.2% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 79 teenagers or 11.5% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 61 people or 8.9% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 119 people or 17.3% are between 30 and 39, 103 people or 15.0% are between 40 and 49, and 93 people or 13.5% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 75 people or 10.9% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 63 people or 9.2% are between 70 and 79, there are 18 people or 2.6% who are between 80 and 89.
, there were 244 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 344 married individuals, 53 widows or widowers and 47 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 295 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household. There were 101 households that consist of only one person and 17 households with five or more people. , a total of 287 apartments (49.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 266 apartments (45.5%) were seasonally occupied and 32 apartments (5.5%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 41.4 new units per 1000 residents.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
the most popular party was the SVP
which received 28.6% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP
(26.7%), the CVP
(17.2%) and the FDP
(9.5%).
The SVP received about the same percentage of the vote as they did in the 2007 Federal election
(28.7% in 2007 vs 28.6% in 2011). The SPS moved from third in 2007 (with 21.2%) to second in 2011, the CVP moved from second in 2007 (with 23.3%) to third and the FDP gained popularity (12.6% in 2007). A total of 364 votes were cast in this election, of which 6 or 1.6% were invalid.
the total number of full-time equivalent
jobs was 100. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 21, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 24 of which 11 or (45.8%) were in manufacturing and 13 (54.2%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 55. In the tertiary sector; 8 or 14.5% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 3 or 5.5% were in the movement and storage of goods, 24 or 43.6% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 5 or 9.1% were technical professionals or scientists, 6 or 10.9% were in education.
, there were 18 workers who commuted into the municipality and 253 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 14.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 8.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 69.9% used a private car.
. Of the rest of the population, there were 3 members of an Orthodox church
(or about 0.44% of the population), there was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic Church
, and there were 20 individuals (or about 2.91% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 3 (or about 0.44% of the population) who were Islam
ic. 84 (or about 12.21% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
or atheist
, and 37 individuals (or about 5.38% of the population) did not answer the question.
). Of the 88 who completed tertiary schooling, 59.1% were Swiss men, 36.4% were Swiss women.
The Canton of Fribourg school system provides one year of non-obligatory Kindergarten
, followed by six years of Primary school. This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude. Following the lower Secondary students may attend a three or four year optional upper Secondary school. The upper Secondary school is divided into gymnasium
(university preparatory) and vocational programs. After they finish the upper Secondary program, students may choose to attend a Tertiary school or continue their apprenticeship
.
During the 2010-11 school year, there were a total of 88 students attending 4 classes in Cheyres. A total of 159 students from the municipality attended any school, either in the municipality or outside of it. There were 2 kindergarten classes with a total of 42 students in the municipality. There were 2 primary classes with a total of 46 students. There were no lower secondary classes in the municipality, but 35 students attended lower secondary school in a neighboring municipality. There were no upper Secondary classes or vocational classes, but there were 2 upper Secondary students and 21 upper Secondary vocational students who attended classes in another municipality. There were no non-university Tertiary classes, but there were 2 specialized Tertiary students who attended classes in another municipality.
, there were 21 students in Cheyres who came from another municipality, while 92 residents attended schools outside the municipality.
Municipalities of Switzerland
Communes , also known as municipalities, are the smallest government division in Switzerland, numbering 2,596 . While many have a population of a few hundred citizens, the largest cities such as Zürich or Geneva also have the legal status of municipalities...
in the district of Broye
Broye (district)
Broye District is a one of the seven districts of the Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland, lying in the vicinity of Lake Neuchâtel. Its territory is non-contiguous and Broye is fragmented into four parts, three of which exist as exclaves from the canton of Fribourg...
in the canton
Cantons of Switzerland
The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the federal state of Switzerland. Each canton was a fully sovereign state with its own borders, army and currency from the Treaty of Westphalia until the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848...
of Fribourg in Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
.
Geography
Cheyres has an area, , of 5.1 square kilometre. Of this area, 2.18 square kilometre or 42.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.83 square kilometre or 35.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.73 square kilometre or 14.2% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.05 km² (12.4 acre) or 1.0% is either rivers or lakes and 0.34 square kilometre or 6.6% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 8.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.9%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.8%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 26.5% is used for growing crops and 11.1% is pastures, while 4.9% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in lakes.
The municipality is located in the Broye district, on the southern shore of Lake Neuchatel
Lake Neuchâtel
Lake Neuchâtel is a lake in Romandy, Switzerland . The lake lies mainly in the canton of Neuchâtel, but is also shared by the cantons of Vaud, of Fribourg, and of Bern....
in the extreme western tip of the Estavayer-le-Lac exclave. It consists of the village of Cheyres and the hamlet
Hamlet (place)
A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...
of Granges-de-Cheyres.
The municipalities of Châbles
Châbles
Châbles is a municipality in the district of Broye in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.-Geography:Châbles has an area, , of . Of this area, or 52.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 28.3% is forested...
, Cheyres, Murist
Murist
Murist is a municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.Its territory was enlarged in 1981 with the formerly independent municipalities La Vounaise and Montborget, and in 1992 with Franex.-Geography:...
, Nuvilly
Nuvilly
Nuvilly is a municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.-Geography:Nuvilly has an area, , of . Of this area, or 74.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 18.0% is forested...
and Vuissens
Vuissens
Vuissens is a municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.-Geography:Vuissens has an area, , of . Of this area, or 51.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 36.4% is forested...
are considering a merger on at a date in the future into the new municipality with an, , undetermined name.
Coat of arms
The blazonBlazon
In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct the appropriate image...
of the municipal coat of arms
Coat of arms
A coat of arms is a unique heraldic design on a shield or escutcheon or on a surcoat or tabard used to cover and protect armour and to identify the wearer. Thus the term is often stated as "coat-armour", because it was anciently displayed on the front of a coat of cloth...
is Gules, a Fess bendy Sable and Argent.
Demographics
Cheyres has a population of . , 7.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 66.3%. Migration accounted for 65.8%, while births and deaths accounted for 1.9%.Most of the population speaks French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
(597 or 86.8%) as their first language, German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
is the second most common (66 or 9.6%) and Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
is the third (10 or 1.5%). There are 3 people who speak Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
and 1 person who speaks Romansh.
, the population was 50.0% male and 50.0% female. The population was made up of 514 Swiss men (45.4% of the population) and 51 (4.5%) non-Swiss men. There were 526 Swiss women (46.5%) and 40 (3.5%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 193 or about 28.1% were born in Cheyres and lived there in 2000. There were 103 or 15.0% who were born in the same canton, while 290 or 42.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 73 or 10.6% were born outside of Switzerland.
The age distribution, , in Cheyres is; 77 children or 11.2% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 79 teenagers or 11.5% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 61 people or 8.9% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 119 people or 17.3% are between 30 and 39, 103 people or 15.0% are between 40 and 49, and 93 people or 13.5% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 75 people or 10.9% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 63 people or 9.2% are between 70 and 79, there are 18 people or 2.6% who are between 80 and 89.
, there were 244 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 344 married individuals, 53 widows or widowers and 47 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 295 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household. There were 101 households that consist of only one person and 17 households with five or more people. , a total of 287 apartments (49.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 266 apartments (45.5%) were seasonally occupied and 32 apartments (5.5%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 41.4 new units per 1000 residents.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
Politics
In the 2011 federal electionSwiss federal election, 2011
Federal elections were held in Switzerland on 23 October 2011.All of the Federal Assembly were to be elected: all 200 seats in the National Council and all 46 seats in the Council of States....
the most popular party was the SVP
Swiss People's Party
The Swiss People's Party , also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre , is a conservative political party in Switzerland. Chaired by Toni Brunner, but spearheaded by Christoph Blocher, the party is the largest party in the Federal Assembly, with 58 members of the National Council and 6 of...
which received 28.6% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP
Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is the largest centre-left political party in Switzerland....
(26.7%), the CVP
Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland
The Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland is a Christian democratic political party in Switzerland. It is the fourth-largest party in the National Council, with 31 seats, and the largest in the Council of States, with 15 seats. It has one seat, that of Doris Leuthard, on the Swiss...
(17.2%) and the FDP
FDP.The Liberals
FDP.The Liberals is a classical liberal political party in Switzerland. It is the joint-largest party in the Federal Council, third-largest party in the National Council, and second-largest in the Council of States....
(9.5%).
The SVP received about the same percentage of the vote as they did in the 2007 Federal election
Swiss federal election, 2007
Elections to the Swiss Federal Assembly, the federal parliament of Switzerland, were held on Sunday, 21 October 2007. In a few cantons, a second round of the elections to the Council of States was held on 11 November, 18 November, and 25 November 2007...
(28.7% in 2007 vs 28.6% in 2011). The SPS moved from third in 2007 (with 21.2%) to second in 2011, the CVP moved from second in 2007 (with 23.3%) to third and the FDP gained popularity (12.6% in 2007). A total of 364 votes were cast in this election, of which 6 or 1.6% were invalid.
Economy
, Cheyres had an unemployment rate of 5.3%. , there were 30 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 10 businesses involved in this sector. 26 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 10 businesses in this sector. 66 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 22 businesses in this sector. There were 349 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.1% of the workforce.the total number of full-time equivalent
Full-time equivalent
Full-time equivalent , is a unit to measure employed persons or students in a way that makes them comparable although they may work or study a different number of hours per week. FTE is often used to measure a worker's involvement in a project, or to track cost reductions in an organization...
jobs was 100. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 21, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 24 of which 11 or (45.8%) were in manufacturing and 13 (54.2%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 55. In the tertiary sector; 8 or 14.5% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 3 or 5.5% were in the movement and storage of goods, 24 or 43.6% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 5 or 9.1% were technical professionals or scientists, 6 or 10.9% were in education.
, there were 18 workers who commuted into the municipality and 253 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 14.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 8.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 69.9% used a private car.
Religion
From the , 384 or 55.8% were Roman Catholic, while 165 or 24.0% belonged to the Swiss Reformed ChurchSwiss Reformed Church
The Reformed branch of Protestantism in Switzerland was started in Zürich by Huldrych Zwingli and spread within a few years to Basel , Bern , St...
. Of the rest of the population, there were 3 members of an Orthodox church
Orthodox Christianity
The term Orthodox Christianity may refer to:* the Eastern Orthodox Church and its various geographical subdivisions...
(or about 0.44% of the population), there was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic Church
Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland
The Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland is the Swiss member church of the Union of Utrecht, also known as Old Catholic Church, originally founded by the jansenists, with a later influx of discontented Catholics following their disappointment with the First Vatican Council. It has 14,000...
, and there were 20 individuals (or about 2.91% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 3 (or about 0.44% of the population) who were Islam
Islam
Islam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
ic. 84 (or about 12.21% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
Agnosticism
Agnosticism is the view that the truth value of certain claims—especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims—is unknown or unknowable....
or atheist
Atheism
Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities...
, and 37 individuals (or about 5.38% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In Cheyres about 251 or (36.5%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 88 or (12.8%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a FachhochschuleFachhochschule
A Fachhochschule or University of Applied Sciences is a German type of tertiary education institution, sometimes specialized in certain topical areas . Fachhochschulen were founded in Germany and later adopted by Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Greece...
). Of the 88 who completed tertiary schooling, 59.1% were Swiss men, 36.4% were Swiss women.
The Canton of Fribourg school system provides one year of non-obligatory Kindergarten
Kindergarten
A kindergarten is a preschool educational institution for children. The term was created by Friedrich Fröbel for the play and activity institute that he created in 1837 in Bad Blankenburg as a social experience for children for their transition from home to school...
, followed by six years of Primary school. This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude. Following the lower Secondary students may attend a three or four year optional upper Secondary school. The upper Secondary school is divided into gymnasium
Gymnasium (school)
A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English grammar schools or sixth form colleges and U.S. college preparatory high schools. The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, meaning a locality for both physical and intellectual...
(university preparatory) and vocational programs. After they finish the upper Secondary program, students may choose to attend a Tertiary school or continue their apprenticeship
Apprenticeship
Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a skill. Apprentices or protégés build their careers from apprenticeships...
.
During the 2010-11 school year, there were a total of 88 students attending 4 classes in Cheyres. A total of 159 students from the municipality attended any school, either in the municipality or outside of it. There were 2 kindergarten classes with a total of 42 students in the municipality. There were 2 primary classes with a total of 46 students. There were no lower secondary classes in the municipality, but 35 students attended lower secondary school in a neighboring municipality. There were no upper Secondary classes or vocational classes, but there were 2 upper Secondary students and 21 upper Secondary vocational students who attended classes in another municipality. There were no non-university Tertiary classes, but there were 2 specialized Tertiary students who attended classes in another municipality.
, there were 21 students in Cheyres who came from another municipality, while 92 residents attended schools outside the municipality.